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From: kent@wsl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent)
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Subject: Re: IBM announces NextStep on AIX, PS/2, RIOS, etc.
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Date: 15 Feb 90 01:34:48 GMT
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The fact is that IBM has licensed Display PostScript -- that's no rumor.

It also remains to be seen exactly how they built NextStep into their
boxes. There are at least two ways of running Display PostScript on a
machine -- on bare framebuffer iron, or as an extension to X. Either way
that they've done it, there will be some incompatibilities. They've
publicly said that IBM NextStep programs will require source code
changes to run on NeXT, and vice versa.

It'll be interesting. It certainly throws some new stuff into the fray.
Whether it's real or a red herring remains to be seen.

Chris Kent	Western Software Laboratory	Digital Equipment Corporation
kent@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!kent			(415) 853-6639